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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 300

June 25, 20168 counties in Michigan; 13 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2016, 7:55 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan; 13 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2016, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 21 counties

Baraga County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Clark County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
5%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic, Ontonagon57 min
Jun 25, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic91 min
Jun 25, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBVilas71 min
Jun 25, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon83 min
Jun 25, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOneida66 min
Jun 25, 9:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga, Houghton, Iron94 min
Jun 25, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest, Oneida, Vilas63 min
Jun 25, 10:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Ontonagon27 min
Jun 25, 10:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson, Marquette63 min
Jun 25, 10:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest, Marinette47 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2016-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2016-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 5:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Menominee, Ontonagon86 min
Jun 25, 7:04 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGogebic56 min
Jun 25, 1:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Dunn, Pierce and 4 more115 min
Jun 25, 2:47 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBurnett, Douglas5 hr
Jun 25, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Barron, Bayfield, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire and 9 more7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.